GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which comes with a core clock frequency of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 255 Watts (232%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 590 should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon R7 370 4G overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 149120 (83%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 should be a lot (more or less 25%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15296 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 will be a lot (more or less 87%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 4G, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27072 (87%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.